Anchor for check-row planters



(No Model.)

J. VALENTIEN. ANCHOR FOR CHECK ROW PLANTERS.

No. 523,388. Patented July 24, 1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT @EEICE.

JAOOBUS VALENTIEN, OF APLINGTON, IOWA.

ANCHOR FOR CHECK=ROW PLANTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,388, dated July 24,1894.

Application filed May 12. 1894.

To aZ Z whom it may concern.-

Be 1t known that I, J AOOBUS VALENIYIEN, a c 1t1zen of the UnitedStates, residing at Apllngton, in the county of Butler and State ofIowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anchors forCheck Row Planters; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in anchorsfor check row planting wires, and the object in view is to provide meansfor laying over the line wire by a lateral adjustment of a springactuated arm so as to obtain a uniform alignment of rows, as the plantercrosses the field and returns in a double traverse thereof.

By my improved construction of anchor, the planter can be operated tothe last notch of the wire, and the wire will be kept taut as when firststretched.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain, the sameconsists further in the novel construction, combination, and adaptationof the parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and thenspecifically defined in-the appended claim.

I clearly illustrate my invention in the accompanying drawings, which,with the letters of reference marked thereon, form a part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1, is a perspective view of theanchor. Fig. 2, is a perspective view of my an chor as secured to theground.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A,represents, an anchoring post which is provided with a lug or pin a as afoot rest when it is desired to force the anchor post into the ground.On the top of the post A, is the cross piece B, which is of sufficientlength to form handles by which the post may be guided, and forced intothe ground.

0 is asupplemental anchoring rod designed to be driven into the groundbehind the post A, and this rod or post 0 is connected to the ends ofthe segment portion D, which is secured to the post A at any suitabledistance from the hand cross bar fastened to its top.

Journaled on the post A, and resting on the Serial No. 511.058. (Nomodel.)

semi-circular segment D, is the shaft E carrying at one end the claw e,in which the tappet ball of the'wire is designed to engage when the wireis stretched across a field to be planted. Extending over preferably ahalf, of the semi-circular segment is thecurved strip E, thus forming aguide for the free end of the shaft or bar E. Directly above the freeend of the said bar E, when in its normal position, is ahook F fastenedto the end of the stripE,which serves asa stop and guide for the wire G.Secured to one end of the semicircular segment as at H, is the spring J,having its other end held by a screw eye It to the shaft E, at alocation about midway its length. This spring is provided to return theshaft to its normal position after being under stress of the approachingplanter drawing on the tappet wire, turned to a position at right anglesto its original direction, which position enables the planter to makeeven and parallel rows to the end of the field. When the row iscompleted, the anchor is removed to the next row, and the operation ofthe planter repeated, it being understood, that an anchor of a similarconstruction, is placed at the op" posite end of the field to beplanted, and at the end of a parallel row to be planted. When theopposite end of the field is reached, the swinging arm, on the approachof the planter, is swung to a position at right angles to its originaldirection, and this operation is repeated until the whole field iscovered.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desireto secure by Letof the shaft turning on the upper surface of thesemicircular segment, and held thereto by the strip E, and a retaininghook carried at the end of the guide strip, all substantially as shownand described.

' In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

JAooBUs' VALENTIEN.

Witnesses:

J. P. ARENDS, F. BENGEN.

